Community Water System · PWS KS2001531
Butler Co RWD 7
Operator location Whitewater, Kansas - 29% of 56 violations are health-based (upper-third health share (> 23%)); surface water source; 1,455 served per SDWIS.
- 1,455
- People served (this PWS)
- 56
- EPA violations (this PWS)
- 16
- Health-based (this PWS)
- Untested
- UCMR5 (this PWS)
Butler Co RWD 7 standing, mid SDWIS violation third
29% of 56 recorded violations are health-based - upper-third health share (> 23%). Corpus terciles use 29,740 systems serving 500+ (the sitemap cohort). Health-based share 29% is upper-third health share (> 23%). Population rank #16,260 of 29,740 among systems serving 500+.
The verdict
Butler Co RWD 7 lands in the middle third by violation volume (56), large enough for peer comparisons without matching the fleet's heaviest ledgers. Population served is mid-pack at 1,455 (mid served population (≤ 3,309)). Health-based share is 29% - most of this ledger is MCL or treatment-technique exceedance. No UCMR5 PFAS test appears for this system in this extract.
- #16,260 of 29,740
- Population · /systems
- #212 of 424
- Population · KS
- 56
- Total EPA violations on record
- 29%
- Health-based (MCL / treatment failure)
Population ordinals match the sitemap cohort (systems serving 500+, population_served DESC). See methodology · corpus placement.
System Details
- System Type
- Community
- Owner Type
- Local
- Connections
- 368
- County
- Butler
- School/Daycare
- No
- MCL Violations
- 16
- Monitoring Violations
- 36
- Treatment Tech Violations
- 0
Violation History
Contaminant violations recorded by EPA.
| Contaminant | Category | Count | Latest |
|---|---|---|---|
| Total Haloacetic Acids (HAA5) | MCL | 16 | 2023 |
| Revised Total Coliform Rule | MON | 8 | 2024 |
| TTHM | MR | 7 | 2017 |
| Total Haloacetic Acids (HAA5) | MR | 7 | 2017 |
| Chlorine | MR | 4 | 2024 |
| Coliform (TCR) | MR | 4 | 2013 |
| Lead and Copper Rule | MR | 3 | 2018 |
| Stage 2 Disinfectants and Disinfection Byproducts Rule | MR | 3 | 2010 |
| Consumer Confidence Rule | Other | 2 | 2006 |
| Public Notice | Other | 2 | 2019 |
Violation Count vs. the National Corpus
Butler Co RWD 7 has 56 recorded EPA violations, 60% of the 29,740 public water systems serving 500+ people nationwide carry fewer, and 40% carry more. 29% of this system's own violations are health-based (16 of 56), and it ranks #16,260 of 29,740 by population served among that same cohort.
EPA violations vs. the national water-system corpus
Public water systems serving 500+ people (EPA SDWIS)
56 Around the middle fewer violations than 40% of 29,740 water systems
the national water-system corpus, bucketed by value
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Source EPA SDWIS · 2026-05-15
Health-based violations on Butler Co RWD 7
16 health-based rows in the tables above map to MCL or treatment-technique exceedances, verify each contaminant code on the federal SDWIS report for KS2001531.
Sources: EPA SDWIS
Nationwide peers
56 violations · 1,455 served: nearest cross-state SDWIS matches.
Cross-state systems near this violation count
Nearest cross-state community systems (500+ served) by total SDWIS violations on record.
Cross-state systems near this population served
Nearest cross-state systems by EPA SDWIS population_served (same 500+ sitemap gate).
What to do with Butler Co RWD 7
Use this system's EPA-reported record as a starting filter, not a final verdict.
- See how every tracked system in Kansas compares on the same EPA violation measures. Kansas systems
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